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J. P. TROXELL.

Sausage Stuffer.

Patented Jun 2, 1868.

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JOHN P. TROXELL, OF HANGOGK, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND SAMUEL H.DAVIS, OF SAME PLACE.

Letters .PatentlNo. 78,555, dated June 2, 1868.,

IMPROVED SAUSAGE-STUFFEB.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, Jolly P. TROXELL, of Hancock, in the county of.Washington, and State of Maryland,

have invented a new and usei'ul Improvement in Sausagc-Stnfi'ers; and Ido hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, sufiicient to enable any one skilled in the art towhich my invention appertains to understand and use the same, referencebeing bad to theaccompanying drawings, which are made part of thisspecification. I

I The subject of this. invention is a sausage-str ding machine, in whichtwo cylinders are mounted side by side, and adapted to be turned uponend to be filled, and two corresponding plungers are alternatelyadvanced within said cylinders, by raclis and suitable gearing, so as toforce the sausage-meat into the casing or skin. In these respects themachine is substantially like the one for which Lctters'Patent of theUnited States, No. 72,410, were granted to me, on the 14th day ofJanuary, 1868. The two cylinders were made with separatedischarge-openings, to each of which the casing or skin had to heapplied as often as the meat was ejected from the respective cylinders.'Hence, in filling awery large skin or casing, the charge of onecylindemwas insuilicient, and the skin or casing had to be detached andapplied to the other cylinder, the contents of thetwo cylinders, or morethan the contents of" one, being required to {ill the skin. 1

My invention consists in providing the two cylinderswi'th a commondischarge-opening, so'that the contents of both can be ejected at onefilling, without the inconvenience and delay of transferring the casingor the conducting-tube from one cylinder to the other. i

In the drawings, I have shown only'so much of the apparatus as isnecessary "to illustrate the present invention.

Figure 1 isanelevation of that end of the machine at which the meat isdischarged into the skin or casing.

Figure 2 is a side elevation of the machine.

Figure 3 is a perspective viewof the discharging end of the apparatus,to which my invention is applied.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severalfigures.

A A are the two cylinders, supported upon a suitable framing, andprovided, each at one end, with trunnions or journals, (1 a, whereby thecylirlder's are adapted to be turned up on their journalled ends, whichare closed with suitable heads, B 13, as shown, in order that saidcylinders may be charged with sausage-meat,

which is introduced at the open ends a Pistons (not shown) are advancedwithin the cylinders alternately, to eject the sausage-meat forciblyinto the skins or casings, which are held upon a tube 0 applied betweenthe" journalled ends of the. cylinders.

The adjacent journals a (dare hollow, and communicate with a chamber, D,whose hinged top; D, is shown as turned up in fig. 3, so as to exhibitsaid chamber, its communications with a a, and the valve E situatedtherein The top or lid D isheld down, so as to close the chamber D, whenthc machine is in operation,-by means of the yoke F and clamp-screwf, orotherwise.

The larger end of the tube C being inserted in the opening d, said tubecommunicates with the chamber 1), into and through which thesausage-meat is forced from both the cylinders through thehollowjournals a a. The tube C thus receives from both cylinders. Whilethe meat is being ejected from one cylinder, it is prevented frompassing into the other by the valve E, which is pivoted within thechamber D, in such a manner as to close the journal a. of the left-handcylindc'r'while the right-hand cylinder is discharging, and vice versa.

By this device the use of more than one tube, and the transferring ofthe casing {rom one to the other, are avoided.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

The single discharge-opening for the cylinders A A, valve E, and hollowjournals a a, combined and operating substantially as and for thepurpose set forth.

To the above specification of my improved sausage-stutter, I have signedmy name, this fourteenth day of March, 1868.

- JOHN P. TROXELL.

- Witnesses:

A. BrBoN-n, Tn-os. J Wrnrnes.

